After “fixing” my pyromaniac toaster I have now, somehow*, reconnected my anti-social music player with the internet.

Time for a cup of tea.

*Fiddled around with various router settings.

Wife can’t believe it’s March already!

Finished reading: Interference by Brad Parks 📚

Read this very quickly (for me), so it’s a page-turner and an enjoyable thriller. Quantum entanglement meets murder mystery.

Slightly off-putting when I realised at the end that all the prime suspects were either Chinese, Indian or Egyptian, apart from a couple of white guys who turned out to be wrongly accused and just too damned rich, powerful and clever.

‘The UK currently has schemes for some Afghans, Ukrainians and people from Hong Kong to come to the UK but no route for Palestinians.’

Keir Starmer pledges to close loophole that let Gazan family settle in UK bbc.co.uk

Much calmer sounds this afternoon when the lock was filled and the gate was closed.

Sight and sound by the lock gate this morning.

A canal lock with a walkway and a heart-shaped design painted on a barrier is shown.

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Sight and sound on the footbridge over the canal from this morning.

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Still setting up this bloody laptop.

Kids are enjoying scooting into school in the mornings.

I’m like some retired secret service security detail chasing after them shouting “SLOW DOWN!” and “IT’S NOT A RACE!” and (to the big one) “LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDER BEFORE YOU CROSS THE ROAD!” and “NOT THAT SHOULDER!” and (to the little one) “MIND THAT OLD LADY!” and “USE YOUR BRAKE!” and (to myself) “AAARRRGGGHHH!!!”

Putting my feet up before the school run starts again. The ball of my right big toe is very sore.